Barnabas Kelemen

An artist of 'innate musicality' with a technical execution that belongs 'only to the greatest' (The Guardian), Hungarian violinist Barnabás Kelemen has captured the attention of the music world. With a repertoire that ranges from classical to contemporary music, Kelemen gave the Hungarian premieres of the Ligeti and Schnittke Violin Concertos as well as the Hungarian premiere and world premiere of violin works by Gubaidulina and Kurtág.

In recital Kelemen has performed with Zoltán Kocsis and Shai Wosner with whom he played recitals at Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Bozar in Brussels and Carnegie Hall in New York. In 2010 he founded the Kelemen Quartet, which received a silver medal, audience prize and the Musica Viva Grand Prize at the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition in 2011.Kelemen Quartett gives its debuts in Florence, Munich, tour in China, India, Australia and New Zealand.

Highlights in the 2013/14 season include appearances as a soloist with Pannon Philharmonic and Tibor Boganyi, Bach Collegium München and Florian Sonnleitner, Sinfonieorchester Innsbruck, London Philharmonic and Michal Dworzynski, Franz Liszt Chamber, Hallé Orchestra and Ryan Wigglesworth, Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra (Hungarian State Opera) and Hungarian National Philharmonic with Zóltan Kocsis. The Kelemen Quartet will give his debuts at the Wigmore Hall, Florence, Munich, Maribor, Eindhoven and within tours to India, Australia and New Zealand. He will also appear in chamber music performances with Alexander Longquich, Nicolas Altstaedt and Katalin Kokas in Salzburg, Utrecht and Vienna.

Barnabás Kelemen's varied discography has been received to critical acclaim, with his recording of Brahms' Sonatas for Violin and Piano with Tamás Vásáry has won a Diapason d'Or, and that of Liszt's complete works for Violin and Piano with Gergely Bogányi was awarded the Grand Prix du Disque 2001 by the International Liszt Society. His recording of Bartók's Rhapsodies and Violin Concerto No. 2 with the Hungarian National Philharmonic and Zoltán Kocsis released by the Label Hungaroton winning the German Record Critics' Award 2011 in the concerto category. Among his more recent recordings are also a live DVD of the complete Mozart Violin Concertos and CDs of Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 1 with the Hungarian National Philharmonic and Zoltán . A recital CD released by the Label Hungaroton with both Bartók Violin Sonatas with Zoltán Kocsis and Bartók's Solo Sonata, received a Gramophone Award in the Chamber Music category 2013.

Born in Budapest in 1978, Barnabás Kelemen entered the Franz Liszt Music Academy at the age of eleven and later went on to become Third Prize Winner of the 2001 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels and took First Prize at the International Violin Competition in Indianapolis in 2002. In recognition of his achievements the Hungarian government awarded him the Sándor Végh Prize in 2001, the Franz Liszt Prize in 2003, Rózsavölgyi Prize in 2003 and most recently the Kossuth Prize in 2012. Since 2005 he has been a professor at the Franz Liszt Music Academy Budapest and a guest professor at Indiana University Bloomington.

He performs on a Guarneri del Gesú violin of 1742 (ex-Dénes Kovács), generously loaned by the State of Hungary.

2013/2014

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